Improvement in wash-boards



and soap-holder board b.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

HERMANN-F. w. LIEBMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINUOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193.972. dated August 7, 1877; application filed May 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN F. W. LIEB- MANN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wash-Boards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved wash-board. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section, of the same.

The nature of my invention relates to washboards for domestic use; and it consists in the peculiar removable rubbing-board, sliding over the body-board'in grooves in the side rails and held in position by a turn-button and further, in the construction and arrangement of the parts composing my wash-board.

A is the body or. frame of the Washboard, having the usual shape, and consisting of the side rails a, top end rail a, the body-board b, The side rails a are grooved on their inner faces for receiving and holding the edges of the fluted or ribbed rubbing-board O, which is slid endwise into the frame A, and is secured therein by a turnglass o rporcelain or terra-cotta, and has a series of pert'orations amf any suitable size or shape, which are .to match with holes cut through the body-board b, so that while rubbing the clothes the soap-suds, carrying the dirt, will find an easy and ready escape.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,;is-

l. The wash-board frame A, having grooved side rails a and body-board b, in combination with the rubbing-board O and turn-button d, all arranged substantially as described and shown.

2. The wash-board described, consisting of the side and end rails a a, perforated bodyboard b, soap-board b, and the removable perforated rubbing-board 0, all constructed and arranged substantially as set forth and shown.

HERMANN F. W. LIEBMANN.

Witnesses:

WM. H. LOTZ, 'EMIL H. FROMMANN. 

